Andrew Dunn
Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsBloomberg: Quantitative Easing
U.K. CPI dropped to a seven-month low last month, driven by lower energy prices. April’s 2.4 percent was less than economists’ median forecast of 2.6 percent. The ECB announced a rate cut on May 2 after euro-area CPI fell to 1.2 percent, as shown in the Inflation Monitor. This is below the ECB’s inflation target […]
Bloomberg: geographical distribution of revenue
Analysing a company’s revenue geographic breakdown is interesting angle to predict future strategic development. Find case studies using the function FFM on your Bloomberg terminals.
UNESCO Open Access Publications
UNESCO publications on open access Get free access to high quality publications from UNESCO which has a agreed a new open access policy. Starting from July 2013, hundreds of downloadable digital UNESCO publications will be available to users through a new Open Access Repository with a multilingual interface. There are already a large number of […]
Human Rights reports
Amnesty international global annual report on human rights released. Read the whole report or look at reports for individual nations. Also on the theme of rights recently published is the annual US Department of State International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 This also has country reports and a global overview with regard to abuses and […]
Same-sex marriage: UK
News relating to the recent British Debates Try the UK parliament which contains details of the debate. Politics Live also has coverage of the debate There are some comments on the main political party websites UKIP; Labour and some discussion from conservative party members on Conservative blogs and Libdem blogs as well as the Libdem Lgbt group […]
Same-sex marriage: France
On-going discussion of same-sex marriage in the UK parliament and in France Read the full text of the relevant French law and details of the process in parliament from the main French government portal IFPOP has some polls on recent public opinion Links to the main campaigning groups where you can find images of protests and comment: […]
Bloomberg: Macroeconomic data
The U.K. economy grew 0.3 percent in the first quarter, avoiding a triple dip recession. Bloomberg functions show much of the recovery comes from the services industry. Bloomberg have produced an instruction on how to analyse this trend using the economic functions: find it on your Bloomberg terminals under the FFM function. Remember you can […]
US Armed Forces: Overseas activity
Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 Useful reference report from Congressional research services, 23 pages long. Provides a list of deployments and missions chronologically. Information on later military missions is more detailed in terms of aims and type of mission.
Trade monitoring database
The trade monitoring databaseThis new official WTO resource provides detailed information on trade measures implemented by WTO members and observers since October 2008. Trade policy data is taken from the regular trade monitoring reports prepared by the WTO Secretariat. The last update was October 2012. They also have a preferential trade agreements database
Sweatshops
Following the recent tragedy in Bangladesh- would you pay more for ethical production? Depressingly, a Huff/Post YouGov poll of American shoppers found little awareness about the incident or sources of their clothing. This paper from 2005 found that despite their stated support for free trade coffee consumers often purchased other cheaper brands. Find further economics working […]
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